KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A rare female baseball legend has died. “All we knew was baseball, and this is all we did,” Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson told the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum a few years ...

Mamie Johnson—baseball legend, trailblazing icon—the first female pitcher to play in the Negro Leagues, died Tuesday at the age of 82.

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, center, holds a bat she was presented as she is honored before a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the St. Louis Cardinals at Nationals Park Thursday ...

We remember pitcher Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, who passed away at age 82. She was 1of 3 women to play in the Negro Leagues. She tried out for the AAGPBL, but regrettably due to the prejudice of ...

The Mamie Johnson Little League team is the first predominantly black team from Washington, D.C. to advance to the regional tournament. As CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan reports, the team ...

The team was created in 2015, and named after Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, a Washington, D.C., resident who was the first female pitcher in the Negro Leagues.

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, the first woman player in the Negro baseball league, who pitched for the Indianapolis Clowns, got her start on the field that is now named for her in Washington, DC.

The Mamie Johnson squad has a right to be proud: they are now the best in the city, winning the DC Little League Championship last week, beating the Capitol Hill Team, 17-14. “Each day they ...

Mamie Johnson, played by Veronica Redd, is an essential character in The Young and the Restless storyline. Introduced in the show in the 1980s, she served as the devoted maid to the Abbott family.

Veronica Redd is returning to The Young and the Restless as Mamie Johnson this fall. The Abbott family housekeeper has been a beloved character since Mamie joined the scene in 1980. Back then ...